Archive for July, 2007

Fun with CSS

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

I got interested in CSS and HTML via working with Flex this past week - Flex uses style sheets and formatting tags (XML I think), and while I was spending hours tinkering with the Flex formatting for our demo to the board today, I learned a lot about structure and how to code stuff in [...]

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Updated my homepage photo!

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

Wrestled with Photoshop for an hour or two, and managed to get a new photo of myself onto my homepage.  Artistically, I don’t like it nearly as much - the other one had a lot more orange in it and matched the text a lot better, plus had more “energy” - but it does save [...]

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Finished current project, prepping for weaving exercises

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

I finished weaving off the painted-warp shawl today (photos in a bit) and am preparing to embark on a set of weaving exercises.  Weaving the painted-warp shawl was an exercise in frustration - I continued to have problems with skipping threads, and the right selvage decided to go loose on me in the last few [...]

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